Catalogue Number
NMLH.2022.134.13
Object Name
Poster
Title
La campagna per il Referendum e la costituente
People
Pietro Nenni
Date
1991
Description
This poster is the 13th in a collection of posters about Pietro Nenni, an Italian socialist politician who was also the national secretary of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and a lifetime Senator since 1970. This poster is titled "The campaign for the referendum" and features photographs of Nenni at a rally. Text underneath the photos reads: " In 1945, after the Liberation, Nenni was Vice President of the Council and Minister for the Constituent Assembly in the Parri government and in the subsequent De Gasperi government. He is the most heated anti-monarchist, but his meeting at the Quirinale with Umberto results in "human and mutual condolences". In fact, Nenni lost a daughter and Umberto a sister in the Nazi concentration camps. In January 1946 at the invitation of the Labor Party he went to London where he talked with the English rulers on the problems of peace and the need for economic aid to Italy. The same issues he addresses on a subsequent trip to Paris. In April of the same year, he held the 24th National Congress of the Party in Florence and Nenni was elected President. The campaign for the Popular referendum for the Constituent Assembly. Nenni is one of the most ardent supporters of the Republic: '1946 is the year of the Republic and of the Constituent Assembly, a battle to which I gave all my heart, all my fervor since I was a boy'" And the image caption reads: "In the photos, images of Pietro Nenni's speeches in 1946 during the battle of the Constituent Assembly and for the Republic" (text translated from Italian)
